Head of the propaganda team and deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council Huang Liuquan delivered a speech when attending a relevant lecture hosted by the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (photo taken on August 23). Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Shen, photographed by
Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, August 24. Title: All sectors of Hong Kong discuss the "new opportunities in Hong Kong" in the "14th Five-Year Plan"
Xinhua News Agency reporter
In order to help all sectors of Hong Kong society more accurately grasp the outline of the national "14th Five-Year Plan", the national "14th Five-Year Plan" propaganda team will hold a series of propaganda activities in Hong Kong from the 23rd to interpret the hot spots and highlights of the planning and respond to the concerns of Hong Kong society. How do you view the "new opportunities in Hong Kong" in the "14th Five-Year Plan"? How can Hong Kong develop in coordination with the Mainland? A Xinhua News Agency reporter interviewed many members of the propaganda team and people from all walks of life in Hong Kong.
"Timely Rain of Hong Kong's Economic Recovery"
When talking about the role of the "14th Five-Year Plan" in Hong Kong, Hong Kong's senior current affairs commentator Zhu Jiajian used an image metaphor: Timely Rain of Hong Kong's economic recovery.
Due to the impact of "black violence" and the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Hong Kong's economy has been under great downward pressure in recent years, and the unemployment rate once climbed to a high of 7.2% at the beginning of this year. Although many economic data have rebounded slightly recently, it has not yet returned to the pre-epidemic level, and cultivating new momentum for development has become the top priority for Hong Kong society.
In this regard, Hong Kong Chinese Chamber of Commerce Forever Honorary President Lu Wenduan said that the "14th Five-Year Plan" brings a steady stream of fresh water to Hong Kong, which is conducive to creating new economic growth points. Actively connecting with the "14th Five-Year Plan" is an important way for Hong Kong to get out of the epidemic and recover its economy as soon as possible.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, in which aspects does Hong Kong contain development potential? According to the member of the propaganda team and director of the Institute of Finance of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Chengjun, said that Hong Kong has great potential in accelerating the construction of the offshore RMB business hub. "In the next step, we will continue to promote high-level connectivity between Hong Kong and the Mainland financial markets, accelerate pilot projects such as bond connect and cross-border wealth management connect, further support the infrastructure construction of Hong Kong's offshore RMB, and orderly promote cross-border transactions of financial products within the Greater Bay Area."
In the view of another member of the propaganda team and deputy director of the Department of Achievement Transformation and Regional Innovation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, by improving the institutional arrangements for scientific and technological innovation cooperation between the Mainland and Hong Kong, and promoting the opening of the central fiscal science and technology plan to Hong Kong, "Hong Kong's innovative technology field has great development potential."
According to the interviewees generally believe that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Hong Kong will usher in more opportunities in shipping, trade, legal services, intellectual property rights, culture and art, and its industrial structure will be further improved. economic development will be more diverse, more dynamic and more sustainable.
"Complete and develop together with the mainland's advantages"
"While Hong Kong continues to improve its competitiveness in the future, it also needs to think about how to complement and benefit the advantages of mainland brother cities, so as to achieve common development." After listening to the preaching of the past two days, the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Chan Mo-po, was highly encouraged. "The propaganda team accurately positioned Hong Kong, and we have a clearer understanding of the direction and path of future development."
He gave an example, saying that in terms of innovation and science, we have strong complementarity with Shenzhen and other cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area . In the future, we will strengthen cooperation, do our best to give full play to the synergistic effect. The competitiveness of the Greater Bay Area urban agglomeration is unparalleled in the world.
When talking about the opportunities brought to Hong Kong by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Legislative Council member Zhong Guobin could not hide his excitement: "This opportunity is rare in the world!"
Zhong Guobin said that the Greater Bay Area has great development potential, and Hong Kong should seize this opportunity well. Many foreign investors have the intention to invest in the Greater Bay Area, and Hong Kong can just play the role of a super contact person to build a bridge for foreign investment in the Greater Bay Area.
Hu Zhaohui, a member of the propaganda team and deputy director of the Development Strategy and Planning Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, also deeply agreed with this. He pointed out that for Hong Kong, ", one country, two systems, " is the biggest advantage. Building the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into a vibrant and internationally competitive internationally first-class bay area plays an important role in the overall and all-round opening-up pattern of national modernization construction.Hong Kong plays a key role in the major strategy of building the Greater Bay Area, and can reasonably divide labor and functions with other cities in the Greater Bay Area to expand new development space.
html On August 24, Hu Zhaohui (second from left), deputy director of the Development Strategy and Planning Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, was interviewed by the media at the Hong Kong Ta Kung Wenhui Group. Photo by Wang Shen, Xinhua News Agency reporter "Hong Kong must unite and move forward in unity"
In recent years, affected by the "Amendment storm", Hong Kong society has once been trapped in endless political disputes, internal friction has been constantly, and many opportunities have been missed. Many years have been wasted. The interviewees are very sorry for this. They all said that a stable social environment is the prerequisite for development, and in the coming time, Hong Kong society must unite and move forward together.
Chan Mo-po said that in the past two years, Hong Kong has experienced a relatively difficult period and is now at a critical opportunity to go from chaos to governance. The next five years are very important, and development is an unchanging keyword. "We must do this work well so that the people of Hong Kong can truly feel the benefits of development and enhance everyone's sense of gain and happiness."
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and honorary professor of the University of Hong Kong also said that if Hong Kong wants to integrate into the new pattern of " dual circulation ", it must sort out the needs of Hong Kong's director and the country, unite all walks of life, and seek development wholeheartedly, and make up for the opportunities lost due to social turmoil in the past two years.
The lost time needs to be recovered. This is not only the mainstream public opinion in Hong Kong society, but also the central government’s eager hope for the future development of Hong Kong. Huang Liuquan, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, pointed out on the 23rd that what Hong Kong urgently needs now is to form a social consensus to focus on construction and develop as soon as possible.
Hong Kong SAR Government Secretary for Administration Li Jiachao published a blog saying that in an environment where security is guaranteed and governance obstacles are eliminated, the SAR government will make efforts to handle the development of society, people's livelihood, economy and other aspects, formulate effective measures and methods, take responsibility and implement governance, and do its best to consolidate and enhance Hong Kong's competitive advantages. (Reporters: Chen Shu, Cha Wenye, Lin Ning, Su Xiao)
